Five common habits that age your brain revealed by doctor

Five common habits that age your brain revealed by doctorSource: ITV

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00:00it raises your cortisol which is your stress hormone and what that can do studies have shown

00:04that it decreases gray matter in your brain and that is matter that's responsible for focus and

00:10emotion so that ages your brain chronic sleep deprivation we're all a bit guilty of that even

00:15one bad night's sleep affects your memory and attention when you sleep your brain cleans

00:20itself it gets rid of a lot of toxins that can build up if you don't sleep properly and they've

00:24been linked to alzheimer's dementia and actually what we've seen is people who regularly get less

00:29than six hours sleep a night have older brains than those who get seven to eight hours so try and

00:36focus on sleep if you can doom scrolling that's getting your phone out before bed and looking at

00:40things it actually floods your brain with lots of harmful chemicals and it and it causes anxiety

00:46it's like drip feeding your brain anxiety and that can age the brain as well skipping meals the

00:52intermittent fasting every now and again is okay and it can actually be beneficial to your brain

00:57intermittent fasting every now and again is okay but regularly skipping meals is not good for your brain